Quantitative measurement of protein digestion in simulated gastric fluid.

The digestibility of novel proteins in simulated gastric fluid is considered to be an indicator of reduced risk of allergenic potential in food, and estimates of digestibility for transgenic proteins expressed in crops are required for making a human-health risk assessment by regulatory authorities. The estimation of first-order rate constants for digestion under conditions of low substrate concentration was explored for two protein substrates (azocoll and DQ-ovalbumin). Data conformed to first-order kinetics, and half-lives were relatively insensitive to significant variations in both substrate and pepsin concentration when high purity pepsin preparations were used. Estimation of digestion efficiency using densitometric measurements of relative protein concentration based on SDS-PAGE corroborated digestion estimates based on measurements of dye or fluorescence release from the labeled substrates. The suitability of first-order rate constants for estimating the efficiency of the pepsin digestion of novel proteins is discussed. Results further support a kinetic approach as appropriate for comparing the digestibility of proteins in simulated gastric fluid.

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